David Chase speaks ill of the dead
Alan Sepinwall of The Newark Star-Ledger is the guy most TV critics want to be today. Well, except for maybe the whole living-in-New-Jersey thing.
Actually, the living-in-New-Jersey thing helped Sepinwall score his coup today: The critic at Tony Soprano’s hometown newspaper got the exclusive exit interview with “The Sopranos”’ David Chase, who doesn’t care what you think.
"I have no interest in explaining, defending, reinterpreting, or adding to what is there," Chase tells Sepinwall. "No one was trying to be audacious, honest to God. We did what we thought we had to do. No one was trying to blow people's minds, or thinking, 'Wow, this'll (tick) them off.' People get the impression that you're trying to (mess) with them and it's not true. You're trying to entertain them."
He adds, with what at least reads as a shrug, "I hear some people were very angry, and others were not, which is what I expected."
As for any “Sopranos” movie: Don’t hold your breath. Chase killed off so many characters he doesn’t feel he has enough to work with for a movie that’d advance the story, and if he set it in the past, so Christopher et al could return, there’d be little suspense as to the characters’ fates.
Well, Chase could team with Michael Bay and have Tony battle Optimus Prime in the first movie/TV crossover sequel.
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Dear Mr. David Chase
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